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Woman Equality in The Color Purple and Trifles
Literature
The Color Purple
Trifles
Women of all classes and races across the world have been known to struggle with issues of equality. From as early as the Elizabethan times to the present, women still struggle to find some sense of equity. This element is no different when it comes to American context. Being a superpower and considered to have…
Flowers for Algernon Analysis
Flowers for Algernon
Literature
As a prerequisite for AP Psychology, we were asked to watch three movies and read one book. I chose to read Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and I watched Girl, Interrupted as well as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Awakenings. All four works stress the ignorance that plagues and changes people’s lives….
The Canterbury Tales Dinner Party Planning
Canterbury Tales
Poems
The Canterbury Tales is written by Geoffrey Chaucer and he is also one of the characters in this story which is the one of the main characters, the story happened in the 14th century in the late 1380s and early 1390s. The characters are on a journey from London to Canterbury. This story was also…
My First Day of High School
Fiction
High School
High School Experience
Literature
Middle school
Waking up that early morning in late August, I didn’t know what I was going into, it being the first day of middle school. All I knew was that I would be starting a new chapter in my life. As I walked in those doors for the first time, I didn’t know anyone there, other…
Mark Twain’s Satire in Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn
Satire
Jay Greene, a NASA engineer for Apollo 11 once said: “If it matters, it produces controversy.” This quote is exemplified through Mark Twain’s 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This novel has earned its spot on the list of literary classics, but is also considered one of the most controversial pieces of literature ever…
Different Approaches of Toni Morrisons “The Bluest Eye”
Novel
The Bluest Eye
Psychological Approach As Pecola suffers abuses from her community, her mental state begins to degenerate while her obsession with obtaining blue eyes grows until outright condemnation and isolation from her community drives her to madness. Pecola’s delusional state is contained to herself as seen through the juxtaposition of italicized versus normal text conversation with a…
Theme of Resurrection in “A Tale of Two Cities”
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Novel
Resurrection has been a recurring theme throughout the novel. It could also be said that resurrection is a powerful and predominant theme throughout the plot aside from the main theme revolution. Resurrection plays a major role in Tale of Two Cities as it brings out characters from a wretched spot back to who they were…
“The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
Poems
Poetry
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost is an observed American artist. He had an incredible authority of American informal discourse and made reasonable delineations of the early provincial life. His incredible work in verse for the most part included settings from the rustic life in New Britain in mid twentieth century. He utilized lyrics to inspect complex philosophical and…
A Literary Analysis of Half-Hanged Mary, a Poem by Margaret Atwood
Poetry Analysis
Half Hanged Mary Poetry Analysis Half-Hanged Mary by Margaret Atwood is a lengthy poem about a woman hanged for accusations of witchcraft. The piece gives the reader emotional insight to the life and thoughts of the woman who, by fault of a poorly tied knot, struggles and suffocates all night but lives into the following…
Poetry and Social Identity
Poems
Poetry
Readers of poetry can interpret poems in a number of different ways, while never having a wrong answer. Identity is a common theme in poetry because people identify themselves in many ways. One can also learn a lot about a poet and how they identify themselves through their works. In Chapter 7, we learned that…